Meanings
plural roches moutonnées
- geographyA rock formation created by glacial erosion.
Some are obviously roches moutonnées, polished and shaped by the ice-sheet that covered this whole landscape during the last million years of the Pleistocene ice age – a geological yesterday compared with the formation of the Alpine chain itself.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 100
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchroche moutonnée
- Englishroche moutonnée
From French roche moutonnée, from roche (“rock”) + moutonnée (“wavy”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French roche moutonnée
- roche moutonnéerock formation
Polish muton, baraniec
- mutonrock formation
- baraniecrock formation
Swedish rundhäll
- rundhällrock formation
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